Real-time cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated digital maps by Eric Theise in collaboration with percussionists Darien Baiza and Paul Neidhardt. A visual wash of street grids, land masses, water bodies, and curiosities from built and natural environments. Driving beats. Orphaned labels and free-floating symbology. Auditory roundabouts and redirections. Saturated colors and the subtlest of tints. Sounds symphonic and screeching. Jittery zooms, pans, and traversals.
On the occasion of Bay Area Now 9, Cinematheque returns for two special screenings at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in the month of October. Running October 6–31, CROSSROADS at 14 looks back on the first fourteen years of Cinematheque’s annual festival. San Francisco Cinematheque: Contemporary Views from the Bay Area, featuring work by ten Bay Area filmmakers created 2020–2023, screens October 21.
Light Cone presents the third edition of Scratch Collection, a journey through our catalogue of 6,500 films whose goal is to draw up a great world atlas of experimental cinema and reaffirm Light Cone as an evolving and thriving collection.
Book presentation and screening of the films Essais & Instants with Hannes Schüpbach. November 16th, Metropolis, Kinemathek Hamburg Experimental films with book presentation: Hannes Schüpbach With guests and conversation
Rouzbeh Rashidi's latest feature film, "Elpis" (2023), will have its German premiere at the 7th Berlin Revolution Film Festival in Berlin on Sunday, October 22, 2023, at 9 PM.
The screening will take place at the iconic Kino Moviemento in Kreuzberg, Berlin, showcasing a pristine 4K DCP format. Following the screening, a Q&A session will be conducted with Rouzbeh Rashidi, as well as the cast and crew.
